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Article Excerpt
All who work at camps are interested in campers. We like to know who they are, where they come from, what they like and dislike, and how to make their time at camp into a fun memory as well as a positive developmental experience. However, some staff admit to having a challenging time understanding today's teen campers. TRU asked two camp questions to a national sample of over 1,000 teens about whether they would come to camp in 2007 (i.e., definitely would, maybe, definitely would not) and why they would go to camp. These questions served as a "lens" for examining other information about teens. This column provides a snapshot of the teens who answered the survey, their demographics, and some of their preferences.
Who Planned to Go to Camp and Why?
The sample consisted of 1,016 teens between the ages of twelve and nineteen years. Slightly more than half the group were boys and about half were ages twelve to fifteen years. The racial/ethnic background consisted of two thirds of youth who identified as white with 14 percent African American, 17 percent Hispanic, and 3 percent identified as other.
In the survey, more girls than boys said they were going to camp. Young people who said they were definitely going to camp...
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